3-Hour Guided Electric Bicycle Tour of Lyon with Optional Food Tasting
Lyon, France
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Trip Type: Bike & Mountain Bike Tours
Duration: 3 hours
Visit the main tourist attractions of Lyon in a day with a well-travelled English guide. Modern powerful electric bicycles provided to enjoy your sightseeing experience. Meet outside the Lyon Part Dieu train station at the bear monument Charles Béraudier Place. Start your tour in the lyon business district and see french life. Visit the old town, cathedral, basilique and croix rousse finishing at the tete d'or park. Return to original meeting place.
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Visit the main tourist attractions of Lyon in a day with a well-travelled English guide. Modern powerful electric bicycles provided to enjoy your sightseeing experience. Meet outside the Lyon Part Dieu train station at the bear monument Charles Béraudier Place. Start your tour in the lyon business district and see french life. Visit the old town, cathedral, basilique and croix rousse finishing at the tete d'or park. Return to original meeting place.The tour starts at Lyon Part Dieu business district where you meet outside the Lyon Part Dieu train station at the statue at the Charles Béraudier Place to collect your electric bicycle. The tour continues towards the Rhone river along cycle paths.
Here you will see the Basilique, Hotel Dieu and Croix Rousse and take the great river bank cycle paths, see the magnificent cruise ships docked at the Rhone river and even check out a cruise trip. The Gallieni bridge is then taken over the Rhone river to the heart of Lyon UNESCO world heritage site peninsula. The tour continues along cycle paths past the Perrache area and along a pedestrianized shopping district stopping at the Ampere statue and the Bellecour square.
Then another pedestrianized route leads to the Place de La République and statue of the Jacobins. You then visit a popular gastronomy street and head towards the St Jean Cathedral and archaeologic gardens where you are free to look inside before continuing to the St George district, old town and house of Guignol. Then you ascend easily with your electric bicycle to the Fourviere district a tour of the Basilique, Roman theatre and Loyasse cemetery, where you are free to wander round and admire the views.
You then go down the hill to the old town and take a food and wine break at Le Petit Glouton (optional) and after you can wander around the alleys before continuing your Lyon Bicycle experience over the Soane to Terreaux Place, Bartholdi Fountain, Town Hall and Opera.
You then go up to the Croix Rousse area, the big stone and painted walls culminating your tour at the Tete D'Or botanical gardens and zoo.
The last part of your tour takes you past the Gare Brotteau a beautiful famous train station now disfunctionate and returning to your original meeting point Lyon Part Dieu place Charles Béraudier.
Sightseeing stops can be taken whenever the group decides 10 to 15 minutes to visit the Basilique, Cathedral and Roman theater when you are able to give me your bicycle and wander round these sites at your will.
You have the option to select this tour with some additional food tasting, to taste some of the delicious local specialties.
Here you will see the Basilique, Hotel Dieu and Croix Rousse and take the great river bank cycle paths, see the magnificent cruise ships docked at the Rhone river and even check out a cruise trip. The Gallieni bridge is then taken over the Rhone river to the heart of Lyon UNESCO world heritage site peninsula. The tour continues along cycle paths past the Perrache area and along a pedestrianized shopping district stopping at the Ampere statue and the Bellecour square.
Then another pedestrianized route leads to the Place de La République and statue of the Jacobins. You then visit a popular gastronomy street and head towards the St Jean Cathedral and archaeologic gardens where you are free to look inside before continuing to the St George district, old town and house of Guignol. Then you ascend easily with your electric bicycle to the Fourviere district a tour of the Basilique, Roman theatre and Loyasse cemetery, where you are free to wander round and admire the views.
You then go down the hill to the old town and take a food and wine break at Le Petit Glouton (optional) and after you can wander around the alleys before continuing your Lyon Bicycle experience over the Soane to Terreaux Place, Bartholdi Fountain, Town Hall and Opera.
You then go up to the Croix Rousse area, the big stone and painted walls culminating your tour at the Tete D'Or botanical gardens and zoo.
The last part of your tour takes you past the Gare Brotteau a beautiful famous train station now disfunctionate and returning to your original meeting point Lyon Part Dieu place Charles Béraudier.
Sightseeing stops can be taken whenever the group decides 10 to 15 minutes to visit the Basilique, Cathedral and Roman theater when you are able to give me your bicycle and wander round these sites at your will.
You have the option to select this tour with some additional food tasting, to taste some of the delicious local specialties.
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